Manifolding sales-book.



E. K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK. APPLICATION FILED DEC-22.1916.

1,295,105, 7 Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK. APPLHZATION FILED 050.22. 1916.

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INVENTOR E. K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK. APPLICATION FILED 020.22.191'6. 1,295,15,Patented Feb. 1919.

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NEW YORK, fiQSIGNOR T AMEEICANBALEE 306K ONT-ARK), CANADA, A GORPG :TIWarena k e OLEING' SALES-BO0K Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented at. as. sets.

Application filed December 22, 1916. Serial No. means. 7

' a salesbook in which multiple copies may be made from a single recordin a practical manner, and more particularly in which five or lesscopiesmay be made at the will of the manipulator, in a more ellicientmanner.

Another object of this invention is to enable one or more of the recordsto be retained in the book without interference with the subsequent useof the book, in a more satisfactory manner.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed outhereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction,combination of ele- -ments and arrangement of parts which will beexemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope ofthe application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

One embodiment of'myinvention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, and wherein similarreference characters refer to similar parts throughout the severalviews, in

which v Figure 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of thisinvention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the book in operative position;

' Fig. 3 is a view showing the manipulation of the hook Fig. i is aperspective view of a modified form showing the pads in superposed rclastion. with a port n of one pad broken away to show the carbon sheet; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the modified form. showing the sheetsarranged in manifolding position.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1. 2 and 3,there are provided two pads so disposed as to permit the leaves of theone pad to be placed upon and between the leaves of the other pad, withtransfer sheets having four carbon faces which may be placed between thesheets of the-pads to form a quintuplicate record. These pads may beheld in associated operative relation by means of a support 1. One ofthese pads, as 2, is hingedly attached, as at3, to one edge of thissupport, and the other of the pads, as 4:, may be attached to anotheredge of the support, which is conveniently the edge opposite the hinge3. As the sec-- ond pad need not be hingedly connected to the support,it is convenient to bind it fast, as, for example, by staples 5. ThepadQ'is conveniently made of a set of superimposed sheets bound togetheralong one edgefi, as

i by staples 7, each sheet being folded upon itself to form two leaves,as a free leaf 8 and a bound leaf 9, joined along one edge, as 10,which, in the form illustrated, is opposite to the binding edge 5. Thebinding edge 6 of the pad 2 may conveniently be the edge opposits tohinge 3. The pad 4 may consist of separate leaves, as 11, 12 and 13,held to gether by the fastening means 5. By this construction, it willconveniently be possible to interpose the leaves of the pad 4 eitherunder or on top of the pad 2, or between the leaves of thetop oruppermost set of the pad. Suitable transfer material is so arranged, asto be operatively associated with said pads, and is conveniently boundinto and on top of the pad 2. This transfer material is double faced,having'fa plurality of carbon faces to permit a 'miiltiple record to bemade,and is conveniently made in the form of a sheet folded uponitself,- like the sheets of the pad 2 to provide two leaves, an under orbound leaf 14; and an upper or free leaf 15, and bound in the pad 2. Toenable the-unbound leaf of the top set from the pad 2 to be readilygrasped and removed from beneath the carbon without first removing thecarbon, a notch 16 is made in both leaves of the carbon in position toexpose a corner of the free end of the free. leaf.

In Figs. 4 and 5 is illustrated a modificaQ the staples 19. Thismodification provides a simpler and cheaper book where the retention ofthe copies in the book is not required. The bound sheets of the pad 2and the 5 sheets of the pad 4; will preferably be provided withweakenedportions, as a line of perforations, shown at 17 and 18,respectively, andthc sheet constituting the leaves 8 and 9 willpreferably be perforated at the ill fold 10 so that the copies may bereadily removed from the book, if desired, and so that the leaves 8 and9 may be. readily separated.

With this construction, by removing the free leaf of the top set frombeneath the transfer material, so that the transfer material will liebetween the two leaves of the top set of the pad 2, the sheets of thepad4 may be inserted between and upon the two leaves of the transfer sheet.

The manipulation of this bobkis as follows: With the book in theposition shown in Fig. 1 and the ad 4 superposed on the pad 2 in theposition in which they would normally rest, the unused leaves of the pad4 are I thrown back to expose the pad 2. The original leaf, as 8, of thetop set from the pad 2, may now be removed from beneath the carbonsheet. so as to permit the lower leaf 14 of the carbon sheet to restincontact with the leaf 9, hereinafter called the duplicate leaf, of thetop sheet from the pad 2. The top leaf, as 15, of the transfer sheet maynow be turned back to expose the upper face of the lower carbon leaf 14.

When it is desired to make a quintuplicate record, two sheets 11 and 12from the pad a are their laid over the carbon leaf 14:, to constitute,respectively, the quintuplieate and quadruplicate copies, and the topleaf I 15 of the carbon sheet is superposed thereon.

vAnother sheet from the pad 4, as 13, is laid over the carbon leaf 15 toform the triplicate copy, and the original sheet 8 is folded over ontopthereof;

It will be obvious that if desired, the top leaf 8 of the top sheet fromthe pad 2 may be placed beneath the sheet 13 from the pad 4, with whichit lies in contact. Thus such sheet 13 would become the original and thev 9 sheet 8 the triplicate. It is preferable, how

ever, to use the book as described because, since it is desirable tomake the triplicate transparent because its record is reversed andon'the under surface, and the duplicate is preferably opaque since itsrecord is direct on the frontsurface, it is more economical to providetransparent sheets in the pad 4; than to make one-half of the sheet ofthe pad-'2 transparent. 69 With the construction outlined, it is obviousthat any writing upon the original. sheet 8 will be copied reversed uponthe under side of the triplicate and quintuplicate sheets and will becopied directly upon Y the top side of the quadruplicate anddupliquired, the sheet from the pad 2 may be placed in any one of thethree positions which the sheets of the pad 2 occupy in making aquintuplicate record, and where a quadruplicate record is required, anytwo of these three positions may be used.

Where it is desired toenable five copies to be made, the transfer sheetwill be surfaced on both sides of both sheets; but one or more of thesesurfacings may be omitted if a less number of copies is suflicient.

The original and duplicate sheets may now be torn from the book and fromeach other along the weakened lines 17 and 10, and as many 'as desiredof .the triplicate, quadruplicate and quintuplicate sheets may be tornfrom the book along the weakened line 18. The pad 2 may now be foldedupwardly around the hinge 3, and those copies which it is desired tohave remain in the book may be folded down therebeneath be tween the pad2 and the support and the pad 2 folded thereon. The book is now ready efor a repetition of the manipulation described.

By the construction recited, it will be obvious that as many of therecords as desired may be allowed to remain in the book withoutinterfering with subsequent inanipulation of the book.

By the foregoing construction are accom plished, among others, theobjects hereinbefore set forth, as well as others which will be obvious.

As many changes could be made-in the above construction and manyapparently widely diiferent embodiments of this invention could be madewithout departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mattcr contained in the above description or shown in the accompanyingdrawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and notin a limitingsense.

i It is also to be understood that the language used in the followingclaims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features ofthe invention herein described and all statements of the scope of theinvention, which, as a matter of language, might be said. to falltherebetween.

Having described my' invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described comprising, .in combination, aset of superimposed folded sheets, a et of leaves associated with saidsheets so as to be interposable between the folds of the uppermost sheetof the first mentioned set and afolded transfer sheet providing doubleface trans fer leaves arranged to be interposed between the folds ofsaid uppermost sheet, and to receive, between its folds, leaves of saidsec- 0nd mentioned set.

2. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, a setof superimposed folded sheets, a set of transparent leaves associatedwith said sheets so as to be interposable between the folds of the uppermost sheet of the first mentioned set, and a folded transfer sheetproviding double face transfer leaves arranged to be interposed betweenthe folds of said uppermost sheet, and to receive, between its folds,leaves of said second mentioned set.

3. A. device of the character described comprising, in combination, twosets of .sheets so arranged that the leaves of one may be interposedbetween those of the other, and a folded transfer sheet providing doubleface transfer leaves between said sets and adapted to be interleavedwith the leaves of each set.

4. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, asupport, a pad comprising leaves joined together and to said supportalong one edge of said leaves and said support, a second pad hingedlyconnected tothe opposite edge of said support comprising leaves joinedtogether along the edge opposite the said hinged edge said transfersheet being notched to permit the upper leaf of the top set of thesecond pad to be readily removed from beneath the carbon sheet.

5.'A device of the character described comprising, in combination, a setof superimposed folded sheets, a set of leaves associated \vit-h'saidsheets so as to be interposable between the folds of the uppermost sheetof the first mentioned set and a folded transfer sheet providingdoube-face transfer, leaves arranged to be interposed between the foldsof said uppermostshcet, and to receive, bctween its folds, leaves ofsaid second men-- tioned set, each of said transfer leaves being notchedto expose an edge of one of sa'u other leaves.

6. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, twosets of sheets so arranged that the leaves of one maybe interposedbetween those of the other, and a folded transfer sheet providing doubleface transfer leaves between said sets and adapted to be interleavedwith the leaves of each set, each of said transfer leaves being notchedto expose a portion of one. of said other leaves.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

EDlVAlt-D KIRBY, BOTTLE. fWitnesses: i l A. L. GENTI-IUER,

J. E. l-lnNnY.

